Standard SSDs deliver better availability, consistency, reliability, and latency compared to HDD disks, and are well suited for web servers, low IOPS application servers, lightly used enterprise applications, and dev/test workloads. With larger Azure Managed Disks sizes now in preview, you can also use Standard SSDs for big-data workloads that require high throughput.

General availability pricing for Standard SSD Managed Disks sizes E10-E50 will be effective November 1, 2018. Read the blog or the documentation to learn more.